Arthur frederick iiawksley



A. P. HAWKSLEYQ (No Model.)

CIGAR LIGHTER.

No. 447,875. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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UNITED STATES. PATENT FFICE.

ARTHUR FREDERICK IIAIVKSLEY, OF ALTRINCIIAM, ENGLAND.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,875, datedMarch 10,1891. Application filed January 29, 1890. Serial No. 338,467- (Nomodel.) Patentedin England September 1, 1886, No- 11,135.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR FREDERICK IIAwKsLEY, a subject of the Queenof Great Britain and Ireland, residingat Altrincham, in the county ofChester, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement inOigar-Lighters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. (Patented in Great Britain, No. 11,135, dated September 1,1886.) 7

My invention relates to cigar-lighting apparatus or to means forlightingcigars, cigarettes, or tobacco in other forms, and principallyto means for obtaining incandescent heat, such as is obtained by the useof ordinary fusees.

The object of my invention is to provide the lighters in such a form asthat they can be carried in compact cases or holders and be projectedtherefrom singly for use. I make a case or fuses-holder of a formsuitable to be carried in the waistooat-pocketas, for example, I maymake such holder similar in form to a pencil-case of a hexagonal, round,or square form in cross-section.

The ignitors, which for convenience of description I will term fusees,consist of isolated masses of composition formed upon a thin rod or uponconnecting material, so that a rod to hold, say, a dozen (more or less)of such fusees can be placed within the holder. The holder is providedwith a sliding pusher, whereby the end fusee can be caused to projectfrom one end of the holder. The fusees may be tipped on one side orbesuitably prepared to be ignited by rubbing upon a prepared surface, asin the cases of ordinary safety-matches, or by simple friction, as inthe cases of ordinary fusees.

My invention will be best understood when described with reference tothe accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is an outside View of thelighteroase closed, so as to be ready to be placed in the pocket. Fig. 2represents the same article with the cap removed and having a lighterprojected from one end, and Fig. 3 represents the ignitors with whichthe case is charged.

In Fig. 1, a is a tubular case, and b is a cap, which is slid upon thecase and incloses about half of its length. In Fig. 2 the said cap issupposed to have been removed. The case a is slit from end to end orthereabout, or is made by bending a piece of sheet metal into a tubularform, the edges of the metal not quite meeting, so that a slit 0 is leftbetween such edges. The case is partly inclosed within an outer case d,which extends from one end about half-way down the length of the innercase, and is also made with a slit to permit the passage of the button6, which is attached to a pusher or piston e, which slides within thecase a. The outer case (Z may also be made by bending a piece of sheetmetal into a tubular form. One end of the case is con-- traoted, so asto leave only a small opening or mouth, and in this end of the case anumber of slits ff are formed and extend from the said mouth somedistance or to varying distances, as in the indication.

In Fig. 3, g g are the aforesaid isolated masses of composition, whichare formed or fixed upon a rod of wood It, or it may be upon a shaft orcore of other suitable material. The mouth at f is made large enough topass this rod of wood without extra expansion of the month.

In the manufacture of the said ignitors I make a paste similar to whatis used in the manufacture of ordinary cigar-lighters and fill the sameinto molds, which are formed with cells or cavities to receive thepaste, and are adapted to hold a rod of Wood or two or more rods inposition to be surrounded by the masses of paste which are molded by thesaid cells. Each ignitor is tipped or coated on one side with a suitableigniting composition. In some cases I coat or coverthe cap-tube b with acomposition,which is supposed to extend from 71 to 1?, and which isadapted to assist in the ignition of the lighters, as in the cases ofthe coatings on ordinary safety-match boxes. In the molding of theignitors it is important that the short lengths of wood which appearbetween every two ignitors shall be as free as conveniently possiblefrom the composition. Such a multiple ignitor as is represented by Fig.3 is introduced into the case a, and the pusher is then put in at theend, a slight spring of the slit case keeping it in place. Then a lightis required, the cap I) is removed and the button 6 is pushed upward, sothat the end ignitor is thrust out at the end of the case, as in Fig. 2,the slits in the case permitting the end of the case to expand and openlike a mouth and to close again behind the ignitor, so as to isolate itfrom the next adjacent ignitor in the series. The ignitor is then rubbedupon the cap or is otherwise ignited.

I do not confine myself to the precise formation or construction of thecase, nor to the formation of it in two pieces a and (I, nor to theprovision of the cap I), so long as the case is made suitable to holdthe ignitors and to project the end ignitor by acting upon a slidingpart.

Having now described the said invention, I declare that what I claim isARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY.

r'itnessesz v EDWARD K. DUTTON, CHAS. ANADALE.

